Improvement in cultivators



A. M. Gmswou).

Cultilvatorr Patented Oc'ul. 247, 1868.

` y No. 83,487.

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A me @WN J r' 'ritmi A. M. GRISWOLD, OF MOMENCE, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 83,487,`datecl October 27, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

To whom it 'ma/J concern Be it known that 1', A. M. Gnlswonmof Momence, in the county of Kankakee, and State ot'vlllinois, have invented new and useful Improvements upona Gerli- Oultivator, patented by me July, 30, 1867; and 1 do hereby declare the ibllowing to be a fulland exact dcscription .of the same, reference being had to the drawings that accompany and form a part of these specifications.

Figure l is a view ofthe machine as ready for work, the driver riding on the seat. p

Figure 2, view with the seat thrown. forward, the operator walking behind, guiding the plows by the handles e e.

Letter A, a shovel-plow or cnltivator-tooth.

Letter B, a small grooved truck, held in the standards c, and rolls along the rod D, as the bars or beams E E are moved to the iightor left.`

Letter F, a clasp around the rod D, and running loosely thereon, having the chain' (1 connected, so as to sustain the bea-n1 E below.c

In my d'evice, patented July 30, 1867, the beams heaving the plows hung on chains, will, when carried to the right or left, which is necessarily done when the rows are crooked, or when the team sways tod much to the one side or the other,'rise somewhat, which tends to lift the plows from the ground.

My improvement on this point consists in the Yuse of the rod D and 4trucks B, or clasps F, for the purpose of allowing the beams jE E to be moved to thel right or left horizontally, without rising.'v

The distinguishing feature o my device at this point, that lthc beams E are so arranged that bothv may be moved the same way, at the, same time, or one in one direction, and the other in the opposite direction. Y

The operator walking in the rear, andholding the ear ends e c of the bcanisE E, which have been pur# posely extended, can with Vgre-a 'ease manipulate to bring all the plows into nairower space, ori spread them over widcr surface.

When I operate my device in this way, the two rods t t, as shown in my former patent, are slipped ont of theirv staples at'. their. lower end.

I am aware that `sliding frames, to aid in carrying the' plows laterally, without tendency to raise them out of the soil, have been used before, but they have been such as required the different plow-beams tosbe moved in the same direction at the same time. (See patent of l. S. Easteiday, of February 25, 1868.)

My arrangement, as already described, is entirely -ditercnt ii'om'this, not only allowing the two beams lt. It to be moved either to the right or left, as circumstances may require, but either of them to be moved either to the right or left, without any reference to the movement of the other, oreither may be moved in either direction, while the other is given -no lateral motion at all.

In arranging the extra shovels A, the lbars l i? att-ach loosely-to the bars E E at man, so as to present n'o hindrance to the lateral movement of the bars E, as above described.

This extra shovel A becomes of great service when the machine is used for preparing thesoil forthe seed, and may be removed. when, on using the 'machine to culthgite growing crops, it moves astride a row. 4

The seat for theoperator, when he would ride, is sustainedb'y two bars running above,.and resting upon the axle, and being continued ibrward, are kept by bolts 'through them and through thesides of the frame, at

0n these bolts the ame of the seat may be turned over forward,- as in iig. 2, when `the operator would v i Yalk, and guide the plows by holding the rear or handle-ends of the beams E E, as hereinbeibre described, the seat thus being out of .the' way.

What I claim as of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 4 l. "'Lhe trucks B, the slides F, one or both, when ar ranged with relation to the rod D and beams E, and to operate as and for the purposes set forth.

2,"llie extra shovel A, when arranged upon the' beams E, substantially as described and set forth. In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witmesses.

A. M. GRISWOLD.

VVitnesse THosJ. BUNTALN,

Z. O.,BRAYTON. 

